orc

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The spell is only broken when the night ends, not with an out-of-control orc or goblin but with something far more mundane: a bill.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

We were in the city of Waterdeep, overrun by an orc horde.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024

The game hinges on cooperation and imagination — on the joy of friends inventing a creative way to trap an orc — and how in Hextor does that translate to sitting passively before a screen?

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

I'm using pots and pans on orcs, and Elijah's got the mithril vest to stave off the orc, or the whatever, the cave troll stabs him with the spear.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2022

The orc in its wild haste had tripped on the ladder-head and fallen through the open trap-door.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien